but this summer the national news anchors of news hours have decided to start reporting on this really crazy bizarre thing called summer all by themselves let's begin this morning with that oppressive heat that's now being felt all across the east and with so unique about this heat wave that some just it's hot in july it's how hot it is how much of the country is being affected and how long it's laughing it is brutally hot weather right now baking two thirds of the country with highs in some areas up to fifteen degrees above average but the design blast warnings and advisories are in effect in twenty three states where the heat index is expected. really people that's your breaking news for the day that during the summer it gets hot or you know what if it is hotter than usual then like i said why don't you leave that to the weather channel but when it's dedicated to talking about the weather or even the weather men and women that work at your channels whose job it is to talk about the weather why don't you focus on what you're supposed to be

devoted to which is the news and here's a story that none of your worthless mainstream media networks reported today for how for months the u.n. special special roberts were on torture was trying to get permission from the obama administration to see bradley manning while he was being held at quantico. you know they wanted to evaluate the conditions that we he was being held at make sure that didn't amount to torture make sure that his human rights were being violated by the country which claims to put human rights above all but guess what even now months later with bradley manning at fort leavenworth in kansas where his conditions are reportedly much much better the obama administration it still will not let one mendez the u.n. official see him if his conditions have improved so drastically if you're so sure mr president that even when he was being held back at quantico that he was being treated within the pentagon's regulations then what is it they're trying to hide you know even the bush administration allowed detainees at guantanamo bay to revisit it and they definitely do not have

a good track record so you're going to let bush make you look bad now all today one mendez a special investigator on torture for the u.n. released a statement saying that the u.s. is of violating the un's rules on access to inmates so once again we're just flagrantly violating international standards that we expect others to follow nicely done mr president the u.n. the american people are not just going to give up on it and forget the bradley manning exists a list of course we're talking about the mainstream media which seems a very content to let this one slide and call it a miss because hey there are much bigger things going on like the fact that it's hot outside. and wiki leaks founder julian assigns was back in a london courtroom today he's fighting extradition back to sweden where two women have accused him of sexual misconduct misconduct and a son just fighting to have these charges dropped but perhaps even more importantly to stay in the u.k.

archies lawyer and it gives us more details on why he's so worried about the chance of going back to sweden. what we saw right. and she say he was flying by his lawyers and his assistants he was told a secret vanities we were all asking. him how he felt about how today was going to go but he didn't answer any of us but he had a haircut he's now wearing glasses so we look that she much older than his forty years and certainly much older than him but he did it looks like the these months of virtual house arrest that he's been on to have really taken their toll he's called speaking staying at the home of a friend of his out in the countryside where he's had to wear an electronic tag he's been under a curfew and he's also had to report to the police station every day say that appears to have really taken its toll on him this hearing that we're seeing this week is shuttle to last until wednesday but even then the rulings expected to be reserved so we might not hear what decision the judge has made for days or even

weeks and insights even if that this appeal is rejected in a cellar says that he vows to take this case higher up the justice chain here in the u.k. first to the supreme court and then if he has to go on to the european court of human rights of course he was last in court in february here in the u.k. where the judge ruled in favor of sweden they said that he should be extradited to sweden saying that there was no reason to expect that our souls would receive a fair trial or even that he's now in court today today to appeal that decision and he and his supporters have always suggested that the prosecution on sex charges is politically motivated and that the end goal of this is that sweden will eventually send him to the u.s. where of course the grand jury is currently investigating the work of wiki leaks. and those artes a laura and it so while we wait person just latest appeals in the british courts we should start asking what does happen if it fails if they all fail well sweden send

him to the u.s. and why would it be in sweden interest to do so and how long will the u.s. government keep trying to get a songe joining me to discuss this is kevin zeese co-founder of voters for peace an executive director of come home america ok. even if you could quickly recap for our audience you know obviously one of the primary concerns for joining us on right now is that if he is extradited back to sweden then he will very quickly after that be sent over to the u.s. can you recap why he has some of those fears perhaps some of the past you know examples you can find in the relationship between sweden and the u.s. in that sense well i think there is a legitimate fear you know the u.s. korean jury has been searching to find a way to indict her sons' now for months they really seem to be flailing it is interesting to see how much challenge i have in accomplishing that indictment they recently called several people from boston who were involved in the computer hacker

community up there all three refused to testify we haven't seen with the government's next was going to be on that so they really stressed still trying to find some evidence to get a summons and i think that they want to do their sweetness swedish states have a very close trading relationship we are sweden's biggest trading partner we have a very strong weapons industry. weapons being used in libya were built by the swedish weapons industry with a very strong banking relationship was sweetly and so all these interests combined to make this happen i was working. to anonymous on this and they think this is about really control of the nasdaq composite. market which is the biggest market in the world as markets all over the various kinds around the world and putting a swedish bank even in the wallenberg another seat on that bank we've seen they've they've documented number of times where steps are taking us a son and one of our family moved we're getting to see the nasdaq so step by step with it so there's all sorts of possibilities with

a bomb line is united states wants a songe they don't want wiki leaks to continue they don't want we can speak copied they don't want more information coming out about us war crimes and this behavior in the world and the signs of the cure trying to stop them all hurt anything you know there are some people that will speculate also. that the former justice minister from sweden has his own personal reasons why he would want to go to the u.s. because he's afraid that some information might leak out about asylum seekers that sweden handed over allegedly no question in fact the partner of the former justice news here is the lawyer for the two women who are accusing us on so it's a pretty small world and that certainly is one factor the fact that the u.s. cia worked with assigned to take to swedish folks to egypt to be tortured they were returned to sweden not guilty of anything in actually even agree large larger payments for the for the trouble you went through so there's definitely something going on here i'm not entirely sure that assad has to go to sweden before he comes united states and there's a lot of talk about how the more difficult to extract from the u.k.

but i think the key here is really time the this the swedish effort which by the way you know he's not accused of anything they just want to improve questioning which is makes is this extradition so strange that a question like you're questioning me right now risk they could do by telephone there's lots of ways to question somebody without international arrest warrants it's a very strange use of arrest warrant with the key is really delay this long legal process is in the u.k. will be a long legal process isn't sweden because that far that gives us more time the u.s. case that this is that he could be. as was. in the u.k. as very strong as united as well we could certainly push u.k. descent i'm here to say don't think there's any chance that perhaps the u.s. government if it have time passes might just let it slide might forget about a jillion aside you think they're going to keep doing whatever they can to eventually get as they get their hands on him. i was a lot of fear. is doing so when he leaves they continue to keep put out documents

they have a whole cache of documents that was allegedly leaked by barely million very glad you mention the un report your being denied access to bradley manning still the us government hiding what it what it did to torture bradley manning it's obvious there are some guys so yes i think that want they want signs greatly the model that he's developed wiki leaks we're going to not a mostly provide information from government from big business and had a visual ease with out the source we've michiru being known is when they want to stop us if we do your times to hold back on national security concerns washington post c n n the able control of corporate media where they can't control a democratized media and wiki leaks director represents a democratized media that scares the national security state the united states let's say that they do get their hands on showing us signs that he has brought here to the united states some of the allegations so far are some of you know the word that's being spread is that they like to try him under espionage charges but that

doesn't really go along with anything pertaining it to wiki leaks or to julian assigned himself so what do you think the worst is and they really could do you tip . i think they're weird they're trying to find a way to prosecute some kind of conspiracy or some kind of. misuse of computer information they'll find to try to find some way to get him and and you know it's amazing how long is that little sentences can be so once it once they actually do them to the united states it will be put into a prisoner i don't think it's one tunnel it was mentioned when i don't think that's what happened was put in a prison will be held in their prison pretrial not released on. bail even though he is no flight risk he can't leave united states they will still keep him in prison or the trial will take a long time to develop will be out of circulation or time when he will be inactive well that time they'll find some way to prosecute he may or may not be done guilty it's a very risky prosecution i don't think it's a very strong case so far we'll see if they come up with some the surprises but so

far as you know real strong case where they'll do a little keep him in prison for years and the process will be long and if he's found guilty he'll be gone for you know five years or more and so it will be real in appropriate obviously prosecution will remake freedom of press united states the julian assange case if it happens will be the john peters in the case of the twenty first century it will define for him in the press it will define transparency of government in the computer age my hope is we move toward democratized media so the american people know more what's going on in their name by their government and that the model that we humans was for it is copied in carbon copy and there are more organizations in the same kind of thing releasing information from big business and government lawyers that was really going on with our money and are going to wait i think that even if they did end up going to lay it aside at some point we're already seeing this start to work and there are other organizations that i want to call them capping copycats that are they're trying to do the same

thing as wiki leaks even with some of these hacking collectives like anonymous. anti-sex there are so many of them where they come together we're already seeing a lot of these leaks come out so something is definitely big and kevin thanks so much for joining us. well still to come tonight american residents often see stories of martial law being imposed in a foreign country now it's happening a right here in the u.s. we're going to tell you where that is when we come back and tensions between the u.s. and pakistan are heating up again washington is suspending aid money to pakistan so we're going to ask how that move could affect the already poisonous relationship between the two countries will be right that. the official tee up location. called touch from the dumpster.

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well there's a field that's growing in the small town of courtside arizona see there is a very sharp divisions there between mayor ed foster the city council. and the police department in the area of the fighting has finally reached the pinnacle with the city now being put under martial law tensions have been growing ever since the city council raised water and sewage rates a first for the area in over ten years add to that a recent discovery that there had been widespread corruption when it comes to mailing out city paychecks and that gives you the back story but let's give you familiar with some of the players here as i already mentioned it we've got mayor ed foster who's fighting the city council the ones that are responsible for raising rates on water and sewage and the local police who sided with the city council and then there's jennifer jones jennifer jones a civil activist who has attempted to call out the city council for their backhanded legislation and payroll and we should mention that she's been targeted

by police for starting a local newspaper called the desert freedom press to document all the wrongdoings however when jones took her argued before a city council meeting last week that's when everything really came to a head take the mayor the police chief and city council city councilman joe winslow began arguing over whether or not jones has a right to speak. and you are out of history stems from the league of cities and towns but now to go to college and tell our precise remove from the wizard of oz the way below would like to be out of order or not. or a hundred hours before he was saying is we really going to see how little he does. he has no i have no idea you can leave or be escorted out of the well if you are ordered you know all i heard was. that i would get the order of your way by removing the water far enough i already showed it was market are never

going to leave the added value in the form to everyone and this is the framework this cash is not managing you are when you know that you are in a file or you go buy real and orders started the ball is just beyond there didn't do the job area and the reason i have not read the do not go out on the go. no you are ego trip are rooted in the face you are on others you are written about me you know in regards according to you got a lot of. that city council meeting ended with jones being arrested so ultimately her voice was not heard and as if that wasn't bad enough the city council held another meeting after the you tube video leaked to the public and this time council members privately voted to oust the mare and declared a state of emergency yep

a state of emergency apparently council members claim that they were getting threats of the public over the way that they denied jones her first amendment rights whether these were death threats or just an outcry over a denial of this woman's rights we don't know but from there the namecalling continued between both sides with america saying of this town was under martial law and of course when questioned by local reporter. the police chief said that law enforcement had done nothing wrong now meanwhile outsiders are calling this ring battle a disgrace to the first amendment and wonder if you can't present your argument before the government and what hope is left to keep officials from becoming corrupt so while the courts cite city councils under a state of emergency all meetings are being closed to the public and they've suspended all public comment now while maire foster continues to fight for his position and against what he says is martial law i think that it's pretty fair to say that the actions of the city council the local police here are disgraceful is just one small you a very important example of what i like to call a police state. and it's only tuesday but it's already been quite

a week in the region and for relations between pakistan afghanistan and the u.s. meanwhile the cars i have rather of afghan president hamid karzai and a man who controlled much of southern afghanistan playing both on the side of the cia and considered to be a drug kingpin was assassinated by a close associate today the obama administration announced it will be withholding a third of the aid that it gives to pakistan eight hundred million dollars worth until they see more results in pakistan's fight against the taliban but apparently that has not stopped the u.s. from launching air strikes in the country three separate missile strikes reported in pakistan in a matter of less than twelve hours and those killed at least thirty eight alleged militants now the reaction from pakistani officials has been rather mixed the defense minister saying that pakistan could pull back troops fighting near the afghan border if the aid really is cut off all the army issued a statement saying that no problem they can do it on their own so the game here

continues but where will it and here to discuss this with me is jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black five dot net thanks so much for being here tonight. i am just wondering what you think of this move for starters if we're going to start with the obama administration cutting off or announcing that they're going to cut off about a hundred million dollars in aid is that really going to want to make pakistan start to play nice once they start missing the money or is this really going to only egg them on well i mean what do you think the odds are of us actually cutting i would be willing to go on the record and say likely i mean we're playing a game of chicken with everybody talks about the fact that it's al qaeda and the taliban that are a reason for supporting pakistan and they have nuclear weapons and we bribe them with money we play games with them and we will continue to pay them as long as they have nukes so we're not going to cut it off it's going to be game of chicken you know they big domestic political statements we make domestic political statements and in the end will pay them and the money will leave the country and go to dubai i

mean do you know any other examples where we really have done that where we threatened the aid because somebody is flagrantly violating whatever rules we like to place upon or what we want them to do that we how many times as israel i'm sorry but you know dumb things in the face of the obama administration especially when it comes to building the settlements but never once has aid to israel been questioned especially by the administration itself so why in pakistan why i would say between the two israel's a much better friend and ally than pakistan's ever been i mean they're pakistanis are the best friends money can rent and if they were rated on even the standards you put on a car rental agency we would have dropped them for another one in a long time ago so they're not really anybody we can count on but they're the only one we've got you know you dance with the one that brung you and they're the only ones we've got who can do anything in the northwest regions where the taliban hangs out. one of the things that that was said by at least the pakistani military because of course they said we heard from the defense minister but he's not really he's not really the one with any of the power he doesn't run it so what we hear

from the army are those are the statements usually the matter they said either we can do it on our own or they said we can always go to our all weather friend china which is that's a threat that we've heard quite often from them lately but when do you think that might actually become a realized threat when is china actually going to start stepping into that wrong we have to worry about pakistan becoming closer at that why would the chinese want that problem you know i mean they're pretty bright give the chinese some credit they know that it's a soup sandwich the whole region is a mess and always has been so there's zero chance of the chinese becoming the pakistanis all weather friends and write the kind of checks we do so what'll happen is we'll make a deal behind the scenes they might be writing checks to get this straight but they're just won't be following it up with their writing checks on minerals or writing checks for other things like they're doing behind the scenes kind of developmental things but they're not going to be comb the foreign gurus that we are in the people who bring the satchels of cash that the pakistani military government and intelligence agencies can use to build those why do you think if i brought up

also the fact that despite all of this is going on despite the threats to withhold some of the funding despite those threats on the pakistani side so we're still launching airstrikes there. i'm sure that you think that is fine when people die thirty eight. alleged bad guys we don't even know but let's talk about the fact that why are why are we so concerned with launching airstrikes and trying to kill the taliban why are they our supreme bad guys when consul we hear about is that we're trying to fight al qaeda worldwide and the new secretary of defense leon panetta says there's only ten or twenty guys left to take out why do we care about this taliban in pakistan you know we're getting his info that he's putting out publicly but it's not the same as the info that's going on behind the scenes there are plenty of al qaeda folks intermixed and intermingled with the taliban and the whole region the entire north. a region is a place where the terrorists train. and go to conduct missions from so the idea that we're killing guys their thirty eight or however many it was great let's stack

him like cordwood i think that's a wonderful thing when we're killing bad guys and i hope we don't know what he's doing bad guys and we've killed countless civilians when it comes to these airstrikes which is why people in muslim countries where we launch air strikes where we launch drone attacks that's why people don't like us is because we cause death they don't like us because they disagree with our religion and the way we run things though you can complain that the people we do have really not to stand up for the average afghan does not really care about how america runs its country they have no idea how america right now is with the ones who are in the northwest frontier in terrorist training camps and in meetings where we verified that it's terrorist leaders coming together to plan bad things in pakistan in afghanistan and against us i think it's pretty safe to say they're bad guys and so if we're sticking them with hellfire missiles you know and blasting them in their component molecules we'll bravo why do you think that out of that is making these statements publicly i think he's trying to justify the obama team's cut and run phase of the surge you know we had the june with the guaranteed withdrawal date and so now we

have to be able to say we succeeded in order to go ahead and justify politically that it's time to leave so you say and we're this is this is about time to leave or could this also have something to do with defense cuts because leon panetta that's one of the big fear is that everybody had that usually when they thought he was going to come in is that he was going to start cutting the budget and if there are only ten or twenty al qaeda left to kill then why do we need these giant was going to do that no we can't yet know that's part of it that's absolutely part of it it's domestic budget cuts for us and justifying the fact that the mission there is over whether we won or not i want to ask you quickly if we segue every afghanistan about nation today. how. do you think that actually changes anything i mean sure this is a guy who was a big player who really controlled southern afghanistan when the cia worked with who is a big drug drug kingpin but does it really change anything for us you know it really points. that we have absolutely no real allies in that country there's nobody there we can trust there is no real governance when the brother of the president is i mean if you're going to hold a most corrupt person in afghanistan competition it be tough to pick

a winner but a.w.k. would probably have come up top of the list so him catch a few bullets is highly shocking and doesn't change anything in the end not really it just points out the fact that we have no reliable partners and is another reason the obama team can rightfully say there's not much we can do there that's going to do any good so you think of that could be a good excuse to say that it's time for us to get out because if you think about it right you can call him an unreliable partner but the point is that we have to depend on these people because people like the u.k. as you call them they help our troops transport equipment they help them get say if you average it was it comes with that but that also you know people like him are the ones that make the local populations feel that their government is so corrupt they make more and they create more resentment which maybe creates more taliban which keeps furthering this war it's a vicious circle. for once alone we're going to agree about the shock to both of us i don't know right now that the money we're pouring in there is doing anything but fueling that corruption fueling the idea that the national government is nothing

but tribal corruption and in the end is going to do no good so i'm getting close to the point where it's time to pull the plug. finally finally welcome to the welcome to the club i've been trying to say we should pull the plug for a while now jim thanks so much we're going to see you unhappy later on the show. still to come tonight we have our tuesday edition of c.n.n. town and washington lawmakers are discussing a new bill and different from pork but is this proposal really just another hope by the government says research fellow at the cato institute were telling. india oh geez availability in the movie joins the hotel rooms a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly torturously. you can a letter to socialism good to see don't need to go publicly and read this in the

kennel was her job as a retreat. seven thirty am in moscow bureau headlines the first funerals of victims of sunday's pleasure boat tragedy on the boulder river are held on a day of national mourning across russia many bodies remain trapped inside this sunken ship including children who are in a play room when the boat went down. the french foreign minister claims libyan leader moammar gadhafi is ready to go as paris seeks a diplomatic solution to a conflict they thought would be a simple knockout despite the french parliament backing the military operation anxieties growing over the mission that was meant to last weeks and is now into months of no end in sight. and wiki leaks controversial founder returns to

a london court to battle extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes supporters maintain it's an excuse to hand him over to the west where he's wanted for publishing thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents. time now for part two of the alone a show stay with us here on r.t. . it's time for show and sell on tonight's program now last time we told you about the consequences of wisconsin's anti-union bill which is now going into effect prison inmates are filling in for county workers and they're doing those jobs for free but you have prison inmates be allowed to replace public sector employees let's go to producer for treason to send you to find out what you have to say. when you think of prisoners going to work well you picture them in stripes but soon their suits they may look more like this you never know under governor walker's

laws that dismantles collective bargaining rights this state is now giving jobs to prisoners because they are cheaper than union workers well for now they may be doing things like cutting lawns or painting but is this the start of a new low cost workforce for the government prisoners are already trusted with building parts for guided missiles so why not helping around the city office serve even handling our tax payments in twenty times the social security administration found eight states where prisoners and more programs were given access to our personal information where will it all end well let's see what you had to set ponder said no way prison labor and in may exploitation should ever replace government workers at any level see war told us i pay taxes and obey the law it's bad enough jobs are going overseas but having the government look over private citizens to save a few bucks and make them sick brian agreed he said don't we have an unemployment problem.